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Sunday, August 30, 2015

V.6.1. REMAKING THE CITY

MENU: 5.6.1. Remaking the city  

OBSERVING ITS CHANGES SHOWS THE PRIORITY OF REPRESSING REVOLT, AFTER THE INSURRECTION OF "BARBARIANS" IN JUNE


Claude Abron
An esplanade built to assemble troops.

In brief

  • "An ounce of prevention:" churches and a park
  • Open the town to the army
  • Giant voids to assemble troops
  • The Emperor's fountain crushes Socialism
  • Arteries for marching troops look back to the kings
  • A canal is covered over 
  • The great eastern voids and their symbols
  • An obscure void highlights the threat of insurrections
    • Those voids align along the Grand Axis — with one exception
      • Notre-Dame Cathedral: eternity, repression, erasure
      • Planning Latin Quarter bombardment has happy results

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      • 0. Ignored gaps reveal another past (1)
      • 0.1. How these views began (1)
      • 0.2. Thanks! (1)
      • 0.3. Details (1)
      • 0.4. Contents (1)
      • 1. WHAT MAKES FRANCE DISTINCT? (1)
      • 1.1. Setting the scene (1)
      • 1.2. Players: legendary or unsung (1)
      • 1.2.1. Kings at heart of French civ. (1)
      • 1.2.2. Court women's gift of refinement (1)
      • 1.2.3. Church monarchy's partner (1)
      • 1.2.4. Small farms' impact (1)
      • 1.2.5. Rebels demand social justice (1)
      • 1.2.6. Exiles & expats (1)
      • 1.2.7. French language: an explosive gift (1)
      • 1.2.8. Immigrant energies (1)
      • 2. AN UNSUSPECTED CITY (1)
      • 2.1. The logic of the legendary core (1)
      • 2.1.1. A spectral rampart (4)
      • 2.1.2. Saint-Germain: rampart heir (10)
      • 2.1.3. LORDS STEP OUT OF SHADOW (8)
      • 2.1.4. Back to the rampart On to the river (5)
      • 2.1.5. Palaces: glory & demise (10)
      • 2.1.6. Palais-Royal now (7)
      • 2.2. BRANDS TAKE OVER CENTER (1)
      • 2.2.1. Ads hover over the river (1)
      • 2.2.2. Left-bank oasis & recent past (7)
      • 2.2.3. Willfully erasing the past (5)
      • 2.2.4. Skip the grotesque profits (8)
      • 2.3. TRDE RTE FR PILGRMS & KINGS (1)
      • 2.3.1. The street of royal power (10)
      • 2.3.2. Medieval spirits linger (10)
      • 2.3.3. Transforming rebel neighborhoods (1)
      • 2.3.4. Crime. Nobles. Garment district (6)
      • 2.3.5. Louis's arc looms over the route (1)
      • 2.3.6. Toward the horizon (6)
      • 2.3.7. Immigrants energize tradition (3)
      • 2.4. To do with children (or without them) (1)
      • 2.4.1. If you come with little boys (1)
      • 2.4.2. Street art & game for kids (4)
      • 2.4.3. A mini-wood where children play (1)
      • 2.4.4. New horizons (1)
      • 2.4.5. Introduction to the Louvre (7)
      • 2.5. NOBLES GODS AND HEROES (1)
      • 2.5.1. The primacy of hereditary rank (1)
      • 2.5.2. Everything aids the overclass (1)
      • 2.5.3. Allegory: nobles vs. new captalists (4)
      • 2.5.4. The Church omits pagan decor... (1)
      • 2.5.5. Detour - anecdotes or economy? (1)
      • 2.6. The gods' modernity (1)
      • 2.6.1. First great work of defiance (1)
      • 2.6.2. Goddess a plebeian revolutionary (1)
      • 2.6.3. The goddess's descendants (1)
      • 2.7. WHAT OPERA TOURS WON'T SAY (1)
      • 2.7.1. A palace for a new elite (4)
      • 2.7.2. Backers sex & money (6)
      • 2.7.3. Blackout? (5)
      • 2.8. From nymphs to Nazis (1)
      • 2.8.1. Place Vendôme & the Occupation (1)
      • 2.8.2. Why Paris didn't burn (1)
      • 3. VITALITY ON OTHER SIDE TRACKS (1)
      • 3.1. Europe's "Chinatown" (1)
      • 3.1.1. A walk where cultures mix (4)
      • 3.1.2. Colors of streets & shops (4)
      • 3.1.3. High-rises built too soon (5)
      • 3.1.4. Panel that skips what counts (1)
      • 3.1.5. Beyond the towers (5)
      • 3.1.6. Some of the restaurants (5)
      • 3.1.7. Asians emerge from shadows (7)
      • 3.1.8. Ads: the ultimate acceptance (1)
      • 3.2. The east: New worlds emerge (1)
      • 3.2.1. Memories of insurrection (5)
      • 3.2.2. Streets where art springs up (5)
      • 3.3. A path through "real Paris" (1)
      • 3.4. BARBÈS DON'T PANIC (1)
      • 3.4.1. Back to the wine tax (1)
      • 3.4.2. A dark forgotten past (1)
      • 3.4.3. A métro station & a movie theater (1)
      • 3.4.4. Toward La Goutte d'Or (1)
      • 3.4.5. The media (1)
      • 3.4.6. (Not very) threatening youth (1)
      • 3.4.7. Gourmet cuisine during Ramadan (1)
      • 3.4.8. Take another look (1)
      • 3.5. ENERGY OF LA GOUTTE D'OR (1)
      • 3.5.1. A setting of "Gauls" (8)
      • 3.5.2. Art known mainly to neighbors (7)
      • 3.5.3. First steps in another land (8)
      • 3.5.4. "Looks." an amiable art (11)
      • 3.5.5. Textiles & Tailors (8)
      • 3.5.6. A couturier for Kenzo &... (5)
      • 3.5.7. Gentrification with brakes (6)
      • 3.5.8. "Emerging design hub of Paris" (7)
      • 3.5.9. Africans' buoyant creativity (5)
      • 3.5.9.1. Suddenly visible Blacks (7)
      • 3.5.9.2. Tomorrow's destination? (9)
      • 3.5.9.3. A place Gtrd. Stein wd hv liked... (4)
      • 4. WHY IS THE CITY SO GRAND? (1)
      • 4.1. Majesty on a human scale (1)
      • 4.1.1. A parade route changes course (10)
      • 4.1.2. The milestones' meanings (7)
      • 4.1.3. Design inconceivable elsewhere (7)
      • 4.1.4. The royal imprint blossoms (5)
      • 4.2. The curtain falls (1)
      • 4.2.1. The queen breaks rules (1)
      • 4.2.2. "Let them eat cake" (1)
      • 4.2.3. The spirit of the royal court (1)
      • 4.2.4. A bubblehead rises to occasion (1)
      • 4.2.5. A greeting announces calamity (1)
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      • 4.2.7. End of 1500-year old monarchy (1)
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      • 4.2.9. "I have no tears left to cry" (1)
      • 4.2.9.1.The queen attains grandeur (1)
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      • 4.2.9.3. Obelisk announces new era (1)
      • 4.2.9.4. How France became a republic (1)
      • 4.2.9.5. French Presidents heirs of kings (1)
      • 4.3. A modern royal city (1)
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      • 4.3.3. "Places" stay royal (1)
      • 4.3.4. Detour: Victors on horseback (1)
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      • 4.4. HVE KNGS BECME SUBVERSVE? (1)
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      • 4.4.2. A new society creeps in (1)
      • 4.4.3. Goddesses loom over the city (1)
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      • 5. CRADLE OF UPHEAVAL (1)
      • 5.1. HISTORY & ECONOMY (1)
      • 5.1.1. Account that makes no sense (1)
      • 5.1.2. "Liberty Equality Fraternity"... (1)
      • 5.1.3. Rev. 1830: capitalist triumph (1)
      • 5.2. 1830: The people fooled (1)
      • 5.2.1. Class goals diverge (1)
      • 5.2.2. Faceless poor & bourgeois heroes (1)
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      • 5.2.4. Freedom's ambiguous painting (1)
      • 5.2.5. A lame homage to the plebes (1)
      • 5.2.6. The July Column: as evasive (1)
      • 5.2.7. Victor Hugo's "Time of riots" (1)
      • 5.2.8. An intelligent ogre checks in (1)
      • 5.2.9. Algeria enters France's story (1)
      • 5.3. 1848: fooled again (1)
      • 5.3.1. Insurrection by accident (1)
      • 5.3.2. 1848: Schism looms (1)
      • 5.3.3. Popular discipline terrifies (1)
      • 5.3.4. The upheaval overwhelms Europe (1)
      • 5.3.5. Feudal rulers emerge still stronger (1)
      • 5.4. FIRST WORKER INSURRECTION (1)
      • 5.4.1. A republic for the happy few (1)
      • 5.4.2. Workers' revolt announces future (1)
      • 5.4.3. Provincial nobles answer call (1)
      • 5.4.4. Young delinquents join in (1)
      • 5.4.5. Empathy from a countess alone (1)
      • 5.4.6. An authoritarian comes to power (1)
      • 5.5. Historical museum & insurrections (1)
      • 5.5.1. Spectacular homage to elites (1)
      • 5.5.2. Fr Revolution almost peaceful (1)
      • 5.5.3. Revolts as shown before renovtion (1)
      • 5.5.4. 1830: showing capitalism's win (1)
      • 5.5.5. Fev.1848: fighting almost deleted (1)
      • 5.5.6. June 1848 gets two sentences... (1)
      • 5.5.7. Barricades become game for kids (1)
      • 5.6. FEAR & URBAN GRANDEUR (1)
      • 5.6.1. Remaking the city (12)
      • 5.6.2. The plan to repress brings beauty (5)
      • 6. LA COMMUNE (1)
      • 6.1. Egalitarianism breaks through (1)
      • 6.2. "The Terrible Year" (1)
      • 6.2.1. A war of choice brings disaster (10)
      • 6.2.2. Explosion (8)
      • 6.2.3. Civil war & carnage (11)
      • 6.2.4. Ruins. Revenge. Evolution. (10)
      • 6.3. Mystification (1)
      • 6.3.1. The victors' view (6)
      • 6.3.2. That view returns (7)
      • 6.3.3. Two historians fight back (2)
      • 6.4. Fraternity that worked (1)
      • 6.4.1. Pariahs take charge of their lives (1)
      • 6.4.2. Leaders we wish we had (1)
      • 6.4.3. Victories of La Commune (1)
      • 6.4.4. A rooted memory (1)
      • 6.4.5. "Friends of the Paris Commune" (1)
      • 6.5. An omen and a turning point (1)
      • 6.5.1. A foretaste of genocide (1)
      • 6.5.2. Toward the 20th century (1)
      • 7. A COMMUNARD BASTION (1)
      • 7.1. The fight for the hilltop (1)
      • 7.1.1. Frenzied combat (1)
      • 7.1.2. Communard fighters (1)
      • 7.1.3. Conflictng signs/ Communrd spirt (1)
      • 7.1.4. A panel mentions La Commune... (1)
      • 7.2. An epicenter of misery (1)
      • 7.2.1. Vanished industry (1)
      • 7.2.2. Disease. Crime. Revolt (1)
      • 7.3. Third-world rev. training ground (1)
      • 7.4. An outskirt that used to be chilling (1)
      • 8. A PAST FORGOTTN YET INDELIBLE (1)
      • 8.1. In the footsteps of "demons" (1)
      • 8.1.1 .Passage by which survivors fled (1)
      • 8.1.2. City-run residences (1)
      • 8.1.3. Accessible leadership (1)
      • 8.1.4. Sculptures. Bikes. Gyms. Gardens (1)
      • 8.1.5. More services. More gardens... (1)
      • 8.1.6. Electn posters in a real democracy (1)
      • 8.2. Shops Communards wd hv valued (1)
      • 8.3. LOST INDUSTRY'S TRACES (1)
      • 8.3.1. Gardens replace a sugar refinery (1)
      • 8.3.2. A giant park on a gas-making site (1)
      • 8.3.3. Posters on park railings (1)
      • 8.3.4. Greening (1)
      • 8.4. Innovative arts flourish (1)
      • 8.4.1. Bleak walls. Huge murals (1)
      • 8.4.2. Messages (1)
      • 8.4.3. More arts from City Hall (1)
      • 8.4.4. Arts discovered by chance (1)
      • 8.5. A district that leans left (1)
      • 8.5.1. A Social-Democratic city (1)
      • 8.5.2. Posters & signs (1)
      • 8.5.3. The May Day parade begins (1)
      • 8.6. The city's newest festival (1)
      • 8.6.1. A banquet under the aerial métro (1)
      • 8.6.2. Asians launch the fête (1)
      • 8.6.3. The arts through new techniques (1)
      • 8.6.4. Silent movies in the park (1)
      • 8.6.5. Ethnic dancers (1)
      • 8.6.6. Drums. Dance. Music. Juggling (1)
      • 8.6.7. Grand Finale (1)
      • 8.7. More gifts from City Hall (1)
      • 8.8. A place to pitch your tent? (1)
      • 8.9. WHAT HAPPENED: THE WAR DID (1)
      • 8.9.1. "Better Hitler than Blum"... (1)
      • 8.9.2. Conservatives & the Resistance (1)
      • 9. FUTURE SPRNGS UP FRM BEHND (1)
      • 9x. EPILOGUES (1)
      • 9xx "Don't you have an agenda?" (1)
      • 9xxx "Yr teachng Comunsm to th police!" (1)
      • 9xxxx "Yr misld bt nt bought. Join us!" (1)
      • x. INDEX (1)
      • x.i. Importance of the economic base (1)
      • x.ii. Omissions by trusted authorities (1)
      • x.iii. Dramas show how things work (1)
      • x.iv. Notice anomalies & details (1)
      • x.v. Priorities that urban designs reveal (1)
      • x.v. Visits based on observation (1)
      • x.vi. Mythology & nbles' claim of primacy (1)
      • x.vii. Outskirts: cauldrons of the arts (1)
      • x.viii. Recommendations (1)

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          • 5.6. FEAR, UNLIKELY PROMOTER OF URBAN GRANDEUR
          • V.6.1. REMAKING THE CITY
          • "AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION:" CHURCHES AND A PARK
          • OPEN THE TOWN TO THE ARMY
          • GIANT VOIDS TO ASSEMBLE TROOPS
          • THE EMPEROR'S FOUNTAIN CRUSHES SOCIALISM
          • ARTERIES FOR MARCHING TROOPS LOOK BACK TO THE KINGS
          • A CANAL IS COVERED OVER
          • THE GREAT EASTERN VOIDS AND THEIR SYMBOLS
          • AN OBSCURE VOID HIGHLIGHTS THE THREAT OF INSURRECT...
          • THE VOIDS ALIGN ALONG THE GRAND AXIS — WITH TWO EX...
          • NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL: ETERNITY, REPRESSION, ERASURE
          • PLANNING LATIN QUARTER BOMBARDMENT HAS HAPPY RESULTS
          • V.6.2. THE PLAN TO REPRESS BRINGS BEAUTY
          • ADAPTING ROYAL MAJESTY: PERSPECTIVES THAT LEAD TO ...
          • BEAUTY WHOSE BRUTAL ORIGIN HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN
          • PROGRESSIVES HIJACK STREETS AND SPACES
          • A MARKET REPLACES AN ARMY
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